Editorial April 4, 1936 Issue

What Do We Admit?

Violet Ker Seymer

All admissions which render homage to God are beautiful in essence and liberating in practice. Since Truth is invariable, so our spiritual admissions, based on scientific truth, should be incapable of deviation. To start each day, then, with the determination to admit and acknowledge only God and His perfect spiritual manifestation, is to start victoriously. It is to be "girt about with truth" and to utilize "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." As we welcome this supreme ruling of good it blots the belief in evil out of our thought and so brings harmony and dominion into our experience. Through our enlightened dependence upon the wisdom, power, and peace of divine Mind our spiritual understanding is quickened, our moral courage is augmented, and our ability to express universal love is increased.

There is great joy in admitting that as God's witnesses we are spiritually and eternally conscious of our oneness with divine Principle, and are therefore obedient to spiritual law. This loyal admission becomes fruitful through vigilance, fidelity, and joy, of which there is an infinite supply for all in every hour. Divine Love inspired Paul, and inspires us, with the conviction that nothing "shall be able to separate us from the love of God." If we are prepared to admit this heavenly fact at all times, we must also admit that in reflecting Love we cannot be prevented from expressing the life, health, joy, right-mindedness which are included in Love's manifestation. Unfalteringly steadfast in our true admissions, and spiritually thankful, we shall repudiate the discordant suggestions which material sense urges upon mortals.

Consequent upon our irreversible spiritual admissions is the rejection of dismay, doubt, discouragement, which are traceable to false witnessing. Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 74, 75), "If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the garment of Jesus' idea of matter." Admitting that matter is a nonentity of which God and man are unaware, we are bound to deny the substanceless beliefs of sickness, sin, and death. Christ Jesus admitted everything true and denied everything false, and from this admission of Truth and denial of error sprang his healing power. He said, "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world," and no sincere follower of the Way-shower can do less than align himself with this same sublime end.

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